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JOHOR BARU: Three new active Covid-19 clusters have been found in Johor, taking the total number to 108. State Health and Environment Committee chairman R. Vidyananthan also said 369 new Covid-19 cases were reported in Johor on Wednesday (Feb 10). "Of that number, 91 are from existing clusters while 19 are from new clusters. The three new clusters are the Jalan Uda Utama cluster in Johor Baru, Lorong Sahabat cluster in Kluang and Jalan Kancil Waha cluster in Kota Tinggi," he said in a statement...

PUTRAJAYA: The "Jalan Telawi" cluster in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur, is among 17 new Covid-19 clusters detected by the Health Ministry on Thursday (Feb 11). In a statement, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the new cluster has 21 confirmed cases among workers of a supermarket located on Jalan Telawi in Bangsar Baru. “The positive cases under this cluster have been uncovered since Feb 2, following a targeted screening exercise on workers of the supermarket. “As of Feb 1...

PUTRAJAYA: The ban on cross-border travel under the movement control order has helped keep Covid-19 numbers down, says Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba.

FPOs show the way of turning agriculture into a profitable venture February 10, 2021 Aggregation of small and marginal farmers in FPOs helped to enhance market linkages and improving their income. More than 86 per cent of farmers in the country are small and marginal. But many of these small farmers have joined hands to form Farmer Producer Organisations (FPO), and in States like Maharashtra, they have turned agriculture into a profitable venture. Aggregation of small, marginal and landless far...

PETALING JAYA: Workplaces and detention centres were the source of 35% of all Covid-19 cases over the past two months, making them the top clusters as the country battles a high tide of infections. The Health Ministry reported 158,789 Covid-19 cases in a 60-day period from Dec 7 last year to Feb 4 this year. The Star did an analysis of the daily figures from this period and found that 29.2% (46,411 cases) were linked to clusters detected from targeted worker screenings at factories, constructio...

PUTRAJAYA: The Health Ministry has detected 13 new Covid-19 clusters, bringing the total number of active clusters nationwide up to 451. Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said 11 of the new clusters were infections discovered at workplaces in Selangor (four clusters), Johor (four), Kuala Lumpur (one), Sabah (one) and Terengganu (one). One of them is the Jalan Cyber Lima cluster in Kulai, Johor which has 101 positive cases linked to it. “The Covid-19 cases found from this...

PETALING JAYA: The Health Ministry has confirmed that a delay in reporting Covid-19 cases to the National Crisis Preparedness and Response Centre led to the recent drastic increase in cases. "For three days straight, the country was shocked by news of daily cases reaching above 5,000. The ministry confirms that the situation was caused by a delay in cases being reported, including positive cases that were found in 2020. "The drastic increase in cases is due to massive targeted screenings at wor...

SEOUL, Jan 30 (The Korea Herald/ANN): South Korea's daily new coronavirus cases stayed in the 400s for the third day in a row on Saturday, as health authorities scrambled to contain cluster infections linked to mission schools nationwide.

JOHOR BARU: Johor recorded three new clusters on Thursday (Jan 28), with 99 cases from the new clusters, namely Jalan Faizal, Jalan Satria and Jalan Dewani Satu. State health and environment committee chairman R. Vidyanathan said from the 99 cases, 45 were from Jalan Faizal cluster in Pontian and 38 and 16 from Jalan Satria and Jalan Dewani Satu in Johor Baru clusters respectively. “On Thursday, Johor recorded 717 new Covid-19 cases in Malaysia, ’’ he said in a statement released here on ...

PUTRAJAYA: Selangor continued to record the highest number of Covid-19 cases as the country reported a total of 3,346 new infections.